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Show ' i - James Pmston Astute James F. Byrnes, new Secretary of State, will play the star part in determining whether foreign cartels make a postwar comeback to compete with American Ameri-can farm and factory products, menacing jobs. Defining cartel as "another word for monopoly or trust, which restricts re-stricts competition and tends to raise prices to consumers," leaders lead-ers of industry are urging the government gov-ernment to get rid of international cartels permanently through voluntary vol-untary agreements with other nations. na-tions. Responsibility for such agreements would fall to 65-year-old "Jimmy" Byrne, who represented repre-sented South Carolina In Congress 14 years and served 16 months in the Supreme court before resigning resign-ing to become a chief "trouble-shooter" "trouble-shooter" for the war program. State Dept. Shake-up . . . Quick-witted, friendly, with a yen for singing tenor in informal quartets, the South Carolinian, who learned law while working as a, court stenographer, will be entering en-tering a new- field of endeavor when he attempts to prevent revival re-vival of German cartels and eliminate elimi-nate international monopolies in rubber, diamonds, tin, etc. He is expected to begin by shaking shak-ing up State Department's foreign service, particulaly the commer-ciay commer-ciay branche. But even with aids of his own choice, "Trouble Shooter" Shoot-er" Byrnes has a hard task to finish fin-ish before he can spare much time for his favorite sport of fishing off the Carolina coast. |